§ MR. T. M. HEALYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when an opportunity will be afforded of discussing the Report as to the treatment of John Daly and the other treason-felony prisoners in Chatham Prison; when will the English Prisons Vote be taken; can he now give his promised answer as to removing these prisoners from Chatham; what recommendations made by the Report have been acted on; and will the Scotch prisoners be re-transferred to a Scotch prison, so that their relatives may be able to visit them?
§ MR. MATTHEWSA full opportunity for discussing this Report will arise on the English Prisons Vote, which will be taken in its order on the Estimates. The Visitors have not recommended the removal of the treason-felony prisoners, and I know of no reason why they should be removed. Chatham is the prison reserved for the class to which these prisoners belong, namely, those who are serving a first sentence. The 458 recommendations of the Report have all been attended to; some were already the practice of the prison. I have already stated that I will communicate with the Scotch Office, with a view to the transfer, not of Scotch prisoners, but of prisoners convicted in Scotland.